17 OCTOBER 2020 People who experience tinnitus might finally have some hope for alleviating their symptoms, after an experimental device that stimulates the tongue was found to ease the condition in a sample of 273 volunteers with a chronic case of it. The tongue buzzing is combined with a carefully prepared audio …
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16 OCT 2020 In the earliest days of the pandemic, many immunologists, including me, assumed that patients who produced high quantities of antibodies early in infection would be free from disease. We were wrong. Several months into studying COVID-19, like other scientists, I’ve come to realize the picture is far more complicated. A recent research …
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15 OCT 2020 A recent series in Forbes on the Wakashio grounding and the state of the shipping industry has attracted considerable attention. Some of its assumptions and interpretations are worth further examination, and in the interest of objectivity, a detailed analysis with supporting data follows below. Assumption 1: Shipping is a boom …
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13 OCT 2020 After two weeks of struggling to overcome the effects of a cyber-attack on its systems, shipping giant CMA CGM Group announced that it has finally been able to restore operations on its e-commerce sites and resume all bookings online. Customers had been struggling and frustrated by the …
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09 OCT 2020 A simple trick can reveal whether your face mask offers sufficient protection: Try blowing out a candle while wearing it. A good mask should prevent you from extinguishing the flame. The rule isn’t foolproof, but it should help weed out masks that aren’t very protective. Ever since the …
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14 OCT 2020 The South Korean shipbuilding industry is continuing to outpace the Chinese shipyards in the volume of new orders. The tend continued for the third month in a row meaning that the Koreans also reported the largest new order volume during the third quarter of 2020. Total new …
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13 OCT 2020 The Unified Command managing the salvage operation for the capsized ro-ro Golden Ray is reporting a delay for the final stages of the operation while they address engineering challenges that were uncovered as the prepared to position the heavy life crane at the wreck site. The cutting and lifting …
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12 OCT 2020 Health care NGO Mercy Ships has been building a new hospital ship at Tianjin Xingang Shipyard since 2014, and the vessel is nearing delivery. When complete, the new Global Mercy will be the world’s largest civilian-owned hospital ship. Mercy Ships provides medical care to underserved areas of Sub-Saharan Africa. …
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10 OCT 2020 For the past days, visitors to the official International Maritime Organization website, www.IMO.org, have been greeted with the message “This website is under maintenance.” But the maintenance is not routine, it’s the result of a cyber attack and comes at a time when the IMO is under intense scrutiny, is working to …
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8 OCTOBER 2020 The US pharmaceutical firm Eli Lilly on Wednesday announced it had applied for an emergency use authorization (EUA) for a lab-produced antibody treatment against COVID-19, after early trial results showed it reduced viral load, symptoms and hospitalization rates. “Our teams have worked tirelessly the last seven months to discover and …
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